Year 3

Year 3 - Numeracy Class Work:

Please feel free to continue with the past activities outlined in previous Home Guides, also available on the Year 3 section school website. Below are the additional topics/skills that we will be covering in our maths lessons this term.

It will benefit your children significantly if you regularly practise some of these skills at home. It doesn’t have to be much, just a little, often – focussing on their specific areas of weakness.

• Units of measurement for capacity, length weight and time. It would be useful to revise the following:

Capacity: 1000 millilitres = 1 litre

Weight: 1000 grams = 1 kilogram

Length: 10 millimetres = 1 centimetre, 100 cm = 1 metre, 1000m = 1 kilometre

Time: 60 seconds = 1 minute, 60 minutes = 1 hour, 24 hours = 1 day 7 days = 1 week, 365 days = 1 year

• Make sure your children know the order of the days of the week and months of the year and are able to spell them independently.

• Conversion: Ask your children questions such as “If there are 1000ml in 1 litre, how many ml are there in half a litre, or 2 and a half litres?” and “How many kilometres is 3500m?”

• Make up real-life worded problems for your children to solve, or get the children to make them up themselves.

Example: Matt has 5 litres of water in his bucket. He uses 3 and a half litres to water his plants. How much water is left in his bucket?

• Telling the time using an analogue and digital clock. Create real-life word problems involving time such as: Sara gets into the swimming pool at 3.30 pm. She swims for half an hour. What time does she get out at? or A train departs at 11.25am and arrives at the next station at 11.50am. How long does the journey last?

• Finding simple fractions of numbers e.g. a 1/4 of 24 = ? The children have been taught to divide the number (24) by the denominator (number on the bottom of the fraction), e.g. 24 divided by 4 = 6!

• Finding compound fractions of numbers: To find 3/5 (three fifths) of 25 they must first find 1/5 (one fifth) and then multiply it by 3. The children can make up word problems involving compound fractions e.g.

Mr. Van Brown had 15 Easter eggs. He ate 2/3 (two thirds), how many Easter eggs were left?

Year 3 - Numeracy Homework:

We will continue to set Multiplication & Division Table homework that requires the completion AND practise (by reciting out loud) of a given table. These sheets should then be kept at home and used for additional practise, as required. Children will be regularly tested through written speed tables, spot questioning and various assessment games during our daily Numeracy lessons.

Please continue to use the CGP Numeracy workbooks to help reinforce the children’s application of the skills and techniques they are learning in class. The children will be expected to work through at least one page per week, with you assisting them by checking the answers, using the pages at the back of the book. This is not meant to be a solitary activity, but more an opportunity for them to discus with you the strategies they need to use and show you how they apply them.

N.B.

- These workbooks do not need to be brought into school and are meant to offer the opportunity for further reinforcement of the skills being developed within school, at home.

- Some tasks within the book may involve skills not yet covered in class. Your children will be able to advise you on what they have/have not yet studied and what they are currently learning within class.

Useful maths websites for use by children at home:

http://www.crickweb.co.uk/ks1numeracy.html
http://www.coxhoe.durham.sch.uk/curriculum/Numeracy.htm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/parents/work/primary/numeracy_and_science/maths_at_home_primary.shtml
http://www.wmnet.org.uk/resources/gordon/Hit%20the%20button%20v9.swf
http://ictgames.co.uk/maths